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Fowarded from the Magellan Project

                    MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT
                       October 30, 1992

1.  Magellan continues to operate normally, performing a
    starcal (star calibration) and desat (desaturation of
    the reaction wheels) on each orbit and transmitting a
    carrier plus 40 bps X-band signal.

2.  No commanding of the spacecraft is planned for today or
    the weekend.  Magellan continues to pass through the
    shadow of Venus during the apoapsis portion of each orbit.

3.  The craft has completed 5982 orbits of Venus, just 18
    orbits from the 6000 mark.  346 orbits have been completed
    in Cycle 4.  Since the science requirement is to collect
    gravity data on at least one out of every four orbits, we
    have about 86 orbits of gravity.  This represents about 70
    degrees of longitude out of the 360 degree coverage
    planned.
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    /_ /|  /____/ \  /_ /|     Ron Baalke         | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
    | | | |  __ \ /| | | |     Jet Propulsion Lab |
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/___| | | |  ___/    | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | have elections, he would 
|_____|/  |_|/       |_____|/                     | have given us candidates.